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Shipping officials said Thursday they were examining the hull of a Japanese oil tanker that was mysteriously damaged this week as it traversed a strategically vital waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.
The ship’s owner has said it may have been attacked.
With the tanker docked in the United Arab Emirates, the owner, Mitsui OSK Lines, and port officials puzzled over precisely what had shattered windows on the vessel, knocked off a lifeboat and punched a dent into its hull.
The damage was apparently inflicted early Wednesday morning in the Strait of Hormuz, a passageway for shipping much of the world’s oil from the Middle East.
Denver Post wire services
